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I. A. HETHERINGTON.

INKING APPARATUS FOR GYLINDER PRINTING MAGHINES.

No. 335,196. Patented Feb. 2, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRICK A. HETHERINGTON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TOHETHERINGTON & BERNER, OF SAME PLACE.

INKING APPARATUS FOR CYLINDER PRINTING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,196, dated February2, 1886.

Application filed January 24, 1885. Serial No. 153,908. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDRIOK A. HETHER- INGTON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion, State ofIndiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Inking Apparatusfor Cylinder Printing-llIachines, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of printing-presses wherein theimpression is obtained by means of a cylinder rolling over a type-bed,of which class the ordinary proof-press may be cited as an example.

The object of my invention is to provide means of operating ink-rollersin connection with an inker-carriage with a comparatively small amountof power.

Figure l is a side view of part of a press,

and partiallyin section, showing myimprovement attached. Fig. 2 is anend view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the center ofcylinder. Fig. 4 is a side View of the inker-carriage to which my claimrelates.

Similar letters refer to the same parts in the several views.

Part marked A represents the impression roller or cylinder.

B, Fig. 1, is the feed-table. 0 Figs. 2, 3, or 4.)

Part marked 0 shows the frame-work of press.

Part marked D is the type-bed.

E is the ink-table or distributing-plate, to

3 5 which ink may be supplied either from a handroller or the usualstyle of fountain.

F F are the tracks or ways upon which the impression-roller andinker-carriage runs.

G is the side frame of the inker-carriage.

H H, Fig. 2, are arms extending from an axis on the hiker-carriage andcarrying the ink-rollers.

(Not shown in I I are inkrollers of the customary composition, or othermaterial suitable for the purpose. 4 5

J, Fig. 1., represents the type.

S S are truck-wheels upon which the carriage travels, of which there arefour.

1% R are propelling-wheels, which bear against the periphery of thecylinder at four points, and are the direct means by which motion isgiven to the hiker-carriage from that of the cylinder, and which form,together with the impression-roller and inker-earriage, the combinationmentioned in my claim. 5 5

Fig. 4c is a side View of the inker-carriage. Two of such sides areconnected by rods, as shown in Fig. 2, and so adjusted that the wheels SS will roll upon the tracks F F. As the impression-roller is rolled fromone end of the press to the other, the inker-carriage is carried withit, first one set of the propellingwheels R R being called into actionand then the other.

I am aware that prior to my invention inker-carriages have been used inconnection with a rolling cylinder. I therefore do not claim thiscombination; but

That I do claim, believing it to be new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

In a printing-press, the combination, with an impression-cylinder andinker-carriage, of propelling wheels or rollers which transmit motion tothe inker-earriage from the eylin der, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

F. A. HETHERINGTON.

Vitnesses:

HERMAN F. GARTH, BENJ. F. Hn'rnnRiNoToN.

